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Crypto pulled back overnight, with $BTC ( ▼ 1.4% ) dropping to $64K (down from $65k) and ETH softening to $1,875. A key drag: Strategy (MicroStrategy) sold 1,690 BTC ($108.6M) to buy back preferred stock. What's driving sentiment today:

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Strategy dropped another SEC Form 8-K filing on August 10, 2026, confirming they sold off 1,690 Bitcoin for $108.6 million. Every single dollar raised from that BTC sale went straight into buying back shares of their own STRC preferred stock.

1/ The Numbers Behind the Bitcoin Sale 📊

Between August 3 and August 9, Strategy sold off 1,690 BTC at an average price of $64,262 per coin.

Strategy’s total stash of 840,447 BTC was bought at an average cost basis of $75,385 per coin. Selling at ~$64,200 means Strategy is taking a direct loss on these specific sales to prop up their preferred stock.

Over the last 2 weeks, Strategy sold a total of 3,328 BTC (1,638 BTC the previous week plus 1,690 BTC last week) with zero new Bitcoin purchases announced.

2/ Why Dump BTC to Buy STRC Shares? 💸

Strategy used all $108.6 million from the Bitcoin sale to buy back 1,152,020 shares of STRC preferred stock.

What is STRC? STRC is a special perpetual preferred stock issued by Strategy that pays a 12% annual dividend. It was designed to trade very close to its $100 face value.

The market hasn't fully bought into the design. STRC previously crashed as low as $71.25 over the past year. While buying back shares pushed STRC up to $95.01, it is still stuck below its $100 target.

Alongside the BTC sale, Strategy sold 6.58 million MSTR common shares to raise $653.1 million, dumping $650 million of it into their U.S. Dollar cash reserve. Their cash reserve now stands at a massive $4.65 billion.

3/ Why Keep Selling Bitcoin? 🔄

In late June 2024, Strategy quietly rolled out its Digital Credit Capital Framework.

This policy explicitly allows the company to sell a small portion of its Bitcoin holdings to pay preferred dividends, buy back shares, and build up USD reserves whenever issuing new stock becomes too expensive.

According to Michael Saylor, building up $4.65 billion in USD cash gives them 2.7 years (143 additional days) of runway to pay dividends without touching their main treasury. Saylor also pointed out that he has never sold any of his personal Bitcoin.

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The repurchases are doing their job, STRC stock has recovered roughly 33% from its lowest point. But even with 12% dividends and $108.6M in buybacks, STRC still hasn't climbed back to its $100 par value.

For MSTR stockholders, this creates a real trade-off. The biggest corporate Bitcoin proxy in the world is actively turning into a complex corporate central bank that sells Bitcoin to balance its own debt-like liabilities.

Strategy still owns a massive 840,447 BTC treasury, but investors will be glued to future 8-K filings to see when the company stops selling and starts stacking again.

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If you were holding out hope for a big institutional boost for Cardano, Polkadot, or Hedera, Grayscale just pulled the plug. It just officially withdrew its SEC registration filings for all 3 spot altcoin ETFs, wiping out those plans in under 3 minutes.

1/ 190 Seconds to Kill Three ETF Dreams ⏱️

Grayscale submitted 3 separate Form RW (registration withdrawal) filings to the SEC in rapid succession. The SEC logged the submissions between 4:33:37 PM and 4:36:47 PM Eastern Time, just 190 seconds apart.

Grayscale confirmed it no longer plans to distribute shares for Cardano (ADA), Polkadot (DOT), and Hedera (HBAR). These ETFs never went live, no real shares were ever issued, and no official prospectuses were handed out to investors.

This officially wraps up a long push that started back in early 2025 when Grayscale first pitched the idea for ADA and DOT trusts, later adding HBAR to the mix.

2/ Altcoin Bleeding & The ETF Shakeout 📉

The hype around potential ETFs wasn't enough to save these tokens from a brutal market slump. Since the start of 2026:

If you measure from early 2025 (when Grayscale first filed the paperwork), all these tokens are down an agonizing 70% to 80%.

Exchanges already gave up first: NYSE Arca pulled its listing proposal for the Cardano Trust back in late September 2025. Nasdaq followed suit by dropping Polkadot and Hedera in early November 2025.

3/ Is the Door Closed Forever? Not Necessarily 🚪

Grayscale gave no official reason for dropping the filings. It could be low investor demand, weak profitability, or shifting regulations.

However, the SEC updated its rules in September 2025 to offer an accelerated approval process for digital asset ETFs. Under this new system, funds that meet generic standards can list much faster without needing custom approvals for every single token.

Grayscale can always re-file these ETFs later under updated rules, better staking models, or lower fee structures.

4/ What's Next for Grayscale's Other Altcoins? 🧪

While ADA, DOT, and HBAR are off the table for now, Grayscale is far from quitting crypto ETFs. They still have pending filings for Bittensor, Aave, BNB, NEAR, Zcash, and Worldcoin. They even updated their Zcash filing for a third time on July 31.

Their Avalanche Staking ETF went live in March 2026, and their Hyperliquid Staking ETF officially took effect in June 2026.

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